The New Me
by Halle Butler | 
The Man with the Golden Arm
by Nelson Algren | 
I Lock My Door Upon Myself
by Joyce Carol Oates | 
A Smugglers Bible
by Joseph McElroy | 
Operation Wandering Soul
by Richard Powers | 
The Verificationist
by Donald Antrim | 
Elect Mr. Robinson for a Better World
by Donald Antrim | 
The Sea House
by Esther Freud | 
The Love Machine
by Jacqueline Susann | 
The Last Voyage of Somebody the Sailor
by John Barth | 
Hopeful Monsters
by Nicholas Mosley | 
A Way in the World
by V. S. Naipaul | 
State of the Union
by Douglas Kennedy | 
Once Is Not Enough
by Jacqueline Susann | 
Wonderland
by Joyce Carol Oates | 
Small Great Things
by Jodi Picoult | 
Prodigal Summer
by Barbara Kingsolver | 
Olive Kitteridge
by Elizabeth Strout | 
Don't Let Me Go
by Catherine Ryan Hyde | 
We Need to Talk About Kevin
by Lionel Shriver |
Megan, recently out of college and working a meaningless job as a gastroenterologist's secretary, openly hates all of her friends for being happy and successful. She makes herself feel better by obsessively critiquing the behavior of her coworker, Jillian, a rapid cycling, grotesque optimist, whose downfall is precipitated by the purchase of a dog.